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A star debater at school, Norman Haire had always wanted to be an actor. Forced to study medicine, he followed his other ...

In 1997 Nancy de Vries accepted the Apology from the Parliament of New South Wales on behalf of all the Indigenous children ...

To reason why explains the arguments and aspirations that guided a professional thinker's choices on the key iss...

This Chinese edition of the Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women, edited by Lily Xiao Hong Lee and assisted by Ms...

George Caley (1770?1829) was a nineteenth century English naturalist who was a collector for Sir Joseph Banks in the colony ...

When Archibald Liversidge first arrived at Sydney University in 1872 as reader in Geology and Assistant in the Laboratory...

As a poet, editor and author, Richard Appleton was driven by a love of language and ideas, and a desire that Australians ...

Despite several landmarks across the state bearing his name, John Hunter, the second governor of New South Wales, remains...

In 1968 Hazel de Berg interviewed May Gibbs, the creator of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, Ragged Blossom, Little Obelia, Mr Liza...

Eleanor Dark (1901-1985) is one of Australia's most celebrated writers of the inter-war years. Born with the twentieth centu...

Dame Leonie Kramer, Chancellor of the University of Sydney (1991-2001) and former Professor of Australian Literature, has ha...

'Its hard to tell, hard to say, I don't know if the bush babies found me or I found the little creatures.'

May Gibbs...

Lucy Osburn (1836-1891) was the founder of modern nursing in Australia who also pioneered the employment of high status prof...

Widely and positively reviewed at the time of publication in 1903, Ada Cambridge's incisive and moving autobiography, Thirty...

Spence's Autobiography is a record of a fascinating life, from childhood in Scotland, emigration to South Australia, her car...